Moving moment boy, 5, smiles as he becomes first Scottish child to take medicinal cannabis

The clip shows Murray Gray, five, grimacing and then smiling broadly as he drinks the medicine while sitting in a hospital bed.

The drug’s approval could not have come too soon for Murray, from Edinburgh, as a severe epileptic seizure just days earlier had resulted in him falling and cracking his head open.

Mum Karen has been fighting for years to get Murray medicinal cannabis and his doctors were recently granted a licence to prescribe epidiolex, which contains small traces of the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis.

The video shows Murray, who suffers from myoclonic astatic epilepsy, at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.

Mum Karen posted the footage of Murray taking his first dose on Wednesday evening to Facebook.